Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

Pretty neat little story from platinum games about Bayonetta Origins.

https://www.platinumgames.com/official-blog/article/12772

The Micron i400 1.5 TB Micro SD card has officially released!

Only available at wholesalers, most of which require a min purchase of 100 cards to order, there is one specific wholesaler that is selling individual units, and, for $180 less than the competition at $420.

Mine is scheduled to be delivered by UPS within the next 1-2 hours. Will post pics once received.

Anyone who needs more storage (how much more? MOOOOOORE!!!), there are 112 cards in stock atm on Newark's website.

https://www.newark.com/micron/mtsd1t5anc8ms-1wt/microsd-card-...

And here it is.

I may be the first person on the planet to insert a 1.5 TB micro SD card into a Nintendo Switch.

@JaxonH
How much is 1.5 TB Micro SD card ?

@Colonel_Mustache
Will do! I know Kioxia revealed their prototype 2 TB micro SD, and said it would release to consumers at some point, but that was 5 months ago and no word since. Who knows how long it'll be until those surface.

@Anti-Matter
More than you'd pay

https://www.newark.com/micron/mtsd1t5anc8ms-1wt/microsd-card-...

Can anyone help a noob? I'm picking up a game for a Switch that I intend to buy, but from the seller photo I noticed there are scratchy-looking lines on the contacts. Is this game damaged or do they all look like this? - https://i.imgur.com/WABZqEb.jpeg

@JaxonH
Gosh...!
$420 for a 1.5 TB Micro SD card ?? 😩

@JaxonH is micron legit? Not sure I heard of them and I typically worry about what I'm putting in my switch.

@Colonel_Mustache good to know. I'm never up to speed on that stuff

Micron is one of the biggest global producers of NAND. It basically goes Samsung, XMC, Kioxia, Micron. Pretty much every bit of solid state storage you buy will be by one of those four. Just often with a more consumer recognisable brand name plastered on the box

Sandisk and Western Digital are Kioxia, Samsung is Samsung, Corsair is Micron and XMC is a Chinese state owned company so, probably not in any flash brands people recognise I suspect. If you dig into any SD card brand it'll end up probably being one of Kioxia, Samsung or Micron. It's also why the bleeding stuff comes from those brands first They're the ones making the actual product so they're generally going to have the first opportunity to sell the higher capacities

@Colonel_Mustache
It's a tad more complex than I made it out to be but yeah. Technically Western Digital owns Sandisk so Sandisk is Western Digital. The actual fabs where Western Digital's flash is made? They're jointly owned by Kioxia and Sandisk. So when you buy a Sandisk SD card you're technically buying flash made by Kioxia in partnership with the Sandisk division of Western Digital using the Sandisk branding

Interesting. I'm only about 1.25 titles into my visual novel odyssey on Switch, the 0.25 being Raging Loop, and I still wouldn't put it in my Top 5. Kinda abandoned it cos it wasn't working out for me, wasn't keen on the art style, and don't think I was gel-ing with the writing either. But I thought I was returning it to the person I got it from and have ended up keeping it, so I might give it another chance some day...

The 1 was WorldEnd Syndrome, which I liked. There wasn't anything particularly amazing about it for me, but I found myself wanting to stick with it and see it through, just enjoyed the vibe, the writing and the cast of characters. It was all pretty low-key but I think I ended up thinking it was 8/10 territory in my eyes, despite a few annoyances with the way it was structured.

@NintendoByNature
Seems the question was already answered but ya, they're definitely legit.

@Colonel_Mustache
And, Kioxia spun off from Toshiba. They literally invented flash memory.

Having just finished Metroid Prime Remastered, I might give a little time to some other games that just released or are about to release.

• Bayonetta Origins: High praise all around- I played the demo and transferred the save data but haven't touched it since
• Atelier Ryza 3: Another quality Atelier game, but I'm not sure I'll play it before the other two
• Trails To Azure: Another exceptionally high quality Trails game but, since save data imports from Trails From Zero, I'll hold off on this until I complete the first
• Remnant From the Ashes: Seems to be a solid Switch port, but lack of gyro aiming really stings
• Fire Emblem Engage Expansion: Releases a week from Wednesday, I believe. But I should hold off until completing the game. Very few things can yank me away from Fire Emblem, but Metroid is one of them.
• Advance Wars 1+2 Re-boot Camp: Two weeks from Friday of the week FE expansion releases, we get this game. Once and for all I'll dive into this series, give it a proper go, and evaluate its merit.

It also seems I preordered the RE4 remake (Steam) on GreenManGaming for a discount a while back and forgot about it, but I'll probably just hold off for a Switch 2 port down the road, since I know that system is going to get all these games ported similar to how Switch got all previous games ported. I'd rather not kill the excitement of a future hybrid release.

In all likelihood though, I'll probably just go right back to Metroid Prime 2 Echoes with dual analog and gyro on the Deck. If I knew for sure a Switch remaster was coming I'd wait, but I'm burning with desire to play more Metroid Prime right now, and I can't wait. If it comes to Switch I'll replay it for a 3rd time, but right now I need my Prime fix to continue.

I went on a trip to California and then Las Vegas last week, and I had the opportunity to finish up both Fire Emblem Engage and Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom (this last one literally in the last possible moments, as our return flight was in the process of descending).

Next up on Switch will be getting further into Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse and Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo. Although I'll only play those at night, since they're horror games. Meanwhile, I need to get back to Soul Hackers 2 on PC Game Pass and start up a playthrough of Gravity Rush Remastered on PS4.

I'll probably dabble with Advance Wars as soon as it releases, but will be saving an intensive playthrough of the second game for later in the year.

@gcunit

As for WorldEnd Syndrome. I'm about ten hours in, but then I ran into a path where I died, and I wasn't compelled to work around it. I probably had something else I wanted to play instead. Happens often.

@Magician I know the feeling...

Regarding WorldEnd Syndrome, you're probably around the stage it got frustrating for me, and it was the one thing that let the game down for me.

This is not a plot spoiler, but just a spoiler about how to go about approaching the game, if you want my advice: give up trying to take an organic route through the summer calendar or guessing where you hope to find certain characters will be each day, and just cheese the save system from the beginning of a summer to find out where everyone is each morning/afternoon/evening, then on the next play through you can see where everyone is pretty much all the time, enabling you to follow the does the game intends for you to follow.

For me the near future setup is looking like Return to Dream Land Deluxe -> FE Engage story DLC -> Advance Wars 1+2 with a load of MK8 Deluxe among all that. After that will depend on whether Nintendo reveals anything that makes TotK look exciting because right now I feel very meh about TotK.

Is there a way to get gold points for a sealed physical game without opening the seal ?

@Ninfan no, you need to have the game inserted in your Switch and choose the option to add Gold points for your Nintendo acount